eb in oregon
Member
You can swallow lead and mercury just fine. You can have lead shot or bullet in body with no ill effects from lead.
Do you wear latex gloves shooting? That is where you get exposed to dangerous forms of lead in the air.
Yet, there is no lead poisoning, no body Ill after thousands of rounds fired per week
Wash hands
Don't smoke at bench
Don't eat at bench
Don't drink at bench
Don't pick nose at bench
Don't rub eyes at bench
After shooting, wash hands and face and blow your nose.
You won't generally get I'll if you don't, but it is still best
Also, young children are the ones who should worry about lead exposure, not adults.
Just think, are antigunners claiming shooters are dying of lead poisoning so we need to ban guns? Were soldiers dying of lead poisoning from battles and lousy hygiene? Were people dying of lead poisoning from handling round lead balls, back when most washed once a week and bathed maybe once a year?
IPhone won't let me type ill and converts it to I'll. Even if I make it accept ill it will convert if I hit space. Stupid programmers.
I'm struck by your post as when we were kids my older brother chewed off the paint around the seat of all the kitchen chairs, all of them. Lead paint. And I can't imagine all the times we used lead paint during our childhood, as well as casting lead sinkers up in our poorly ventilated basement for our dad for when we went fishing. When my brother was drafted in 1969 the Army offered him West Point because of his ASVAB scores. Highly unusual really, especially as he had gotten married just before he was drafted. Apparently his scores were high enough they would ignore his being married. He declined and did his two years. Oh, then there is my grandfather who was wounded in WWI and spent his whole working life as a Steam Fitter working with asbestos and molten lead and died at 92. The point however is apparently lead isn't deadly poison to everybody.